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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1951 PAGE FOUR THE DAILY TAR HEEL New Leaves, Give Giggles For Gifts - If your roommate has his light- j ing drew to a close, Inoticed that er side slowly growing dim as the end of the quarter draws near and "examinations fleck his norm ally jocular countenance with a -scowl, you might consider Inti mate Bookshop's offer for a good laugh. Maybe your roommate will ineed some feal belly laughs to pull him out of the exam hang over; if so, a Christmas gift which is inexpensive, but worth hun dreds of chuckles would be ideal. . Here are several joke books for gifts and for yourself which can't be beat: , Monster Rally, Charles Addams. Simon and Shuster: New York, 1950. $2.95. 91 pp. A few nights ago I was rolling on the, floor of a local beer hall with a copy of Addams' newest cartoon cavalcade when a young woman who had been noticing that I was rather fond of Monster Rally gave me a little insight to this morbid' comedian whose characters" are not completely bloodless unless their teeth are filed to fanglike perfection. It was nothing short of amazing to learn that this fellow is hot much older than we college - students. He doesn't even have a ghoulf riend (nor is he married). This quiet young man hasn't always drawn from his imagination to create his sadistic Sadies. The house which is always pictured in his cartoons "raised. After flipping through comic ninety-one, you might wonder if the boy Addams was raised, natcneci, or ectopiasimiuz ed. I don't suggest this book as a gift to anyone who has just un dergone an operation. In fact, un less your laterals are exception ally rigid, I hesitate to recom mend the book. Read at your own risk. , FOR LANGUAGE STUDENTS AND PEOPLE' Fractured French, F. S. Pearson 2d, lllus. R. Taylor. Doubleday & Company,' Inc;- New York. 1950. $1.50. If your roommate happens to be a classicist and .likes Anglo European thought, he would probably appreciate the old stand-by, Fractured French. Once I saw him at a party some cock tail napkins being distributed among the' martini set. On the napkins were R. Taylor's fractur ed French cartoons (the "same ones in this book). As the even- Christinas Seal: !S ttlp Fight TB J 5 through the courtesy of The Doily Tor Wcgj no one had used the paper gems, but many distinguished pockets were bulging with cocktail nap kins. ': ' v ' " ' r' ',. Doubleday "fir Co. has, gotten right on the ball and published a book containing these cartoons, so that instead, of stealing them you can take them directly to the party and giggle with the giggle water. ; "TARNATION" BACK A Treasury of College Humor, edited by Koppe, Irvine, ' and Burns. Wm. Publishing Corpora tion: New York, 1950. $1.98. 255 'pp. : -- - -, From the Tarnation and humor magazines from California to Massachusettes . this sophisticated gag book derives the best from the best. The humor in this coi- Joe Raff 'Riddle' Still A Riddle THE RIDDLE OF EMILY DICKINSON, Rebecca Patterson. 434 pp. Bostons Houghton Mifflin Company $4.05 For 90 years Emily Dickinson's sudden retirement from life has been a question mark in Ameri can literature. Tied into the le gends about this New England poet and recluse are the stories of a love affair, ending unhappily for Emily When the man, never love. In seeking the name of this man, the problem for scholars has ucca. iui w nuiii uiu ijmii y wine - her love poems? Mrs. Patterson, in offering a solution, advances the theory that Emily fell in love, not with a man, but with Catherine Scott Turner Anthon, a vivid and fascinating widow. Emily met "Kate as Mrs. Anthon was called, in 1859 when Kate was visiting Sue Gil bert Dickinson, Emily's "sister-in-law. After Kate servered the re lationship Emily became a re cluse, refusing to receive visitors, dressing always in white, scribb ling hundreds of poems, and griev ing for her lost love during the remaining 25 years of her life. In proving her point, the writer cites poems written with femin ine pronouns and symbolism whicb pertains to a woman. Also she gives reasons for the elimina tion of each man irr Emily's life as a possible romantic interest. The amount and thoroughness of the research is certainly impres sive. The question is: are the assumptions strong enough sup port the conclusion? Although the solution- .does seem . ; plausible enough, -the proof, given, is' inade quate. Perhaps stlil unavailable letters: ;and yppexhs. : will thrdw more light on the subject. The book is neither, a biogra phy of I Emily Dickinson nor a critical analysisVbf ?her poetry but rather a biography of -Kate, ;who wnetner the hypothesis is accept ed or not; mwsa? undoubtedly a main character, in, ; Emily's life; The book- will i surely arouse con troversy -fi, $$lt t v r.-.;--'.-.. " 'The scholarly approach! to the topic w4yUld4pobly limit the au dience of the book to a fewT tH6sewhb are alVeadyr Interested students of the Dickinson poetry. Mrs. Fatterson, & . native of Ar kansas, has been an instructor in AhfffVsv1fptmnts of sev eral universities and , is now liv- Vnlfrt fcfaDel Hill 'Behold Virginia!' - Proud Southern Novel BEHOLD ; VIRGINIA ! THE FIFTH CROWN, George F. WHU son. 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